Eco Quotes - Page 2

• Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hands

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.556, Library of America

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• Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

  Bill Bradley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Challenges, Audacity

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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• The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

  Daniel Webster

  Science, Sea, Earth Day

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.451, Beard Books

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• In wildness is the preservation of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Camping, World, Transcendentalism

  "Walking" (1862)

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• Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sky, Earth Day

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Science, Land

  Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law, February 26, 1937.

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• 'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

  Jason Reitman

  Writing, Reality, Empowerment

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  The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Native American, Rights

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

  Brian Mulroney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Always Trying, Friendly, Fabric

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• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Learning, Garden

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• By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mother

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Love, Inspirational, Nature

  "Trees" l. 1 (1913)

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  But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

  Rachel Carson

  Inspirational, Motivational, War

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

  Wendell Berry

  Sacred, Sacred Places, Gathering Places

  Wendell Berry (2006). “Given: Poems”, p.18, Counterpoint Press

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• All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we have added 1300 cities with populations over 100,000. When the environment is forced to file Chapter 11, the ecology collapses. Nations recover from war but not from a failed eco-system. The status of our environment is more threatening than all wars. It is forever.

  Gaylord Nelson

  War, Past, Years

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• We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.

  Wendell Berry

  Effort, Would Be, World

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• Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Silly, Dumb

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• Variación / Variations El remanso de aire bajo la rama del eco. El remanso del agua bajo fronda de luceros. El remanso de tu boca bajo espesura de besos. * The still waters of the air under the bough of the echo. The still waters of the water under a frond of stars. The still waters of your mouth under a thicket of kisses. Translated from the Spanish by Lysander Kemp

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Stars, Kissing, Echoes

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• That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Friendly, Recycling, Trash

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Nature, Betrayal

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

  Josie Maran

  People, Needs, Looks

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• There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.

  Rachel Carson

  Morning, Spring, Heart

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